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It
is not clear why Acevedo was still in the country, but a witness at the
wedding claims 15 immigration officers burst in whilst she was waiting
for her daughter to enter the hall.

Trenton
Oldfield, a family friend who was present – and who successfully
resisted deportation to Australia after being arrested for jumping into
the Thames to disrupt the 2012 boat race – told the Guardian: ‘[The
officers] swept into the room when we were just about to start the
ceremony.

‘We don’t know where they came from. They must have been waiting in the building.’

Mr Oldfield said Acevedo was ‘very quickly’ taken away, along with her brother.

Police told the bride and groom that the ceremony could not go ahead because of an alleged discrepancy in their paperwork.

Miss Acevedo was arrested by Border Force officials as she attended her daughter's wedding at Haringey town hall in north London yesterday

However,
their papers were found to be in order and the ceremony was able to
proceed, though without the mother-of-the-bride present.

Miss Acevedo had been paid £30 a week by Harper for four hours of cleaning and ironing at his Westminster flat.

He claimed most of this back from his parliamentary expenses - more than £2,000 over the seven years she worked for him.

In his resignation letter to David Cameron, Harper said he had checked Miss Acevedo’s status when he hired her in 2007.

He
said it was only when he asked the Home Office to confirm her legal
status that he discovered she did not, as he had thought, have
indefinite leave to remain.

A Home Office spokesman said the department never comments on individual cases.